All time favorite movie lines

[jayfish]

Mine would have to be a tossup between the opening night lines for "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" and "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi". My Mother and Uncle took me to see Trek when I was nine and there were some, who I would have considered at the time, crazy freaks in that line. My best buddy and I got dropped off for Jedi's opening the summer I turned thirteen. That was just a good time. Do people even wait in lines for movies anymore?


..."The Evil Dead"'s line was pretty cool too.

Jay

[Lautremont]

1. The line I was in for "House,"

a terrible horror movie from the mid-Eighties that was, for some reason, rated R here in my neck of the woods. (It's the equivalent of a PG, I think - no nudity, little swearing or violence.) But my friends and I, knowing only that it was a horror movie and thus we had to see it, devised a plan to get in. We trimmed hair from each others' heads and used spirit gum to form moustaches on our pubescent faces.

Well, since I was the mastermind and the holder of the spirit gum, I did most of the moustache-crafting, and by the time my turn came around, it was time to go to the movie. No moustache for me.

Waiting in line behind my two moustachioed friends was a strangely pleasurable exercise in suspense. The first one got in past the legendarily strict ticket-matron guarding the gate. That was to be expected; he was a hormone case who could have - and did - buy beer at age thirteen. Then the second: a true test, as he was young for his age. But the moustache got him through. The pleasure I felt watching my brainstorm and hirsute craftsmanship game the system - an unfair system rigged to prevent young horror geeks from seeing movies they should have every right to see - was sublime. Now it was my turn.

No moustache. No tickee. No watchee. Back home I went as my hair-lipped pals settled in to watch 90 minutes of mediocre terror-lite. I had to wait several months before I could be bored and disappointed on video.

[jayfish]

3. Man, You Had It Rough.

Around here you could get into anything if you looked even close to twelve. The mustache plan was brilliant though. I'll bet you were kicking yourself in the arse the whole way home.

Jay

[LeftyMom]

2. Star Wars had two guys in Vader suits and they fought. Star Trek: First Contact had drunk guys

in Klingon suits. No fighting, but a lot of cursing in Klingon. It's a tossup which was more fun.

[jayfish]

4. Nice!

That sums it up about perfectly.

Jay